Tire-fastener.



PATENTED' MAY 5, 1903.

R. M. CONNABLE.

TIRE PASTENER. APPLIGATION FILED FEB. 4, 1903.

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Patented May 5, 1903.

RALPI-I- M. CONNABLE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

TlRE-FASTENERQ SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters latntNO. 727,295, dated May 5, 1903.

Application filed February 4, 1908. Serial No. 141,837. (No model-) 7 of the wheel either by means of a tie-band or' tie-wires embedded in the tire or engaging side flanges of the tire or by shoulders extending inwardly from annular side plates secured to the telly of the wheel.

The object of the invention is to provide for a tire of this character a novel construction of fastening which will act to press the tire outwardly against its retaining means.

The invention consists in certain constructions and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure 1 is a side View, partly in section, of a portion of a vehicle-wheel provided with the tire-fastening of this invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section thereof. Fig. 3 is a similar view illustrating a modified form of fastening. Fig. 4 is a View similar to Fig. 1 and illustrating another form of the invention. Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional View illustrating the construction shown in Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawings, Figs. 1 and2, the letter A designates the telly of a vehiclewheel. sisting in this instance of a metal tire a, forming the bottom of the channel, and two annu lar side plates b, secured by bolts 0 to the felly at opposite sides of the metal tire and said side plates provided on their opposing ing the tire in an outwardly-compressed condition against its retaining means, in this B designates achanneled rim con-- .split band with their contacting faces transversely inclined or beveled, as indicated at it, so as to produce a wedge formation. ply this form of tire to the wheel, the metal To aptire a having of course been previously upset orshrunk in place on the'felly, the

two band-liners fg are first inserted one upon the other on'the said metal tire ct,the said side plates 1) are applied to the felly, but

are left loose enough to allow for the inser tion between them of the elastic tire O, and the latter is then inserted between said side plates, whereupon said side plates are drawn together securely by the bolts 0, and this movement of said side plates will cause the band-liners to move inwardly one upon the other, their inclined faces causing the one to ride up on the other, and thereby compressing the tire O outwardly against its retaining means and holding it in its outwardly-compressed condition securely on the wheel.

In the construction illustrated in Fig. 3 instead of' the two band-liners f g I'em'ploy a band 1' at the base of the elastic'tire, and between said band and the metal tire on is any desired number of wedge-shaped liners j, which are inserted in a sidewise direction through holes'k in the side plates in order to compress the elastic tire outwardly against the retaining means and are secured in place by any desired meansfor instance, by mashingdown the smaller end of the wedge, as illustrated atj, Fig. 3.

Inthe construction illustrated in Figs. 4c

and 5 the elastic tire O is first compressed outwardly against its retainingm eans by screwthreaded bolts 1, working through'the fellyA and the metal tire (1. against the band i at the base of the elastic tire C, and after the'said tire has been thus compressed any desired number of liners M are partly inserted in a sidewise direction through one of the side plates 1) and between the band 01 and the metal tire a to hold the elastic tire in the proper out wardly-compressed condition. The bolts 1 may be then Withdrawn, as illustrated in Fig. 4, and the said liners m are driven home.

The liners m of course need not be wedge shape like the liners j. (Illustrated in Fig. 3.)

It is obvious that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a vehicle-wheel, the combination with an elastic tire and retaining means for the tire, of liners inserted between the wheel-rim and the elastic tire and adapted to hold the 

